Across
- 1. (PSA) In the United States, any CSA, any MSA not included in a CSA, or any μSA not included in a CSA
- 5. Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
- 9. A continuous urban complex in the northeastern United States
- 12. A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities
- 13. In the United States, an urban area with between 2,500 and 50,00 inhabitants
- 15. An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures
- 16. (CBD) The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered
- 17. A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area
- 18. Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland
- 19. A central city and its surrounding built-up suburbs
- 20. The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery
- 21. (MSA) In the United States, an urbanized area of at least 50,000 population, the county within which the city is located, and adjacent counties meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city
- 22. A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner-occupied area
- 24. (CCS) The process of capturing waste CO2, transporting it to a storage site, and depositing it where it will not enter the atmosphere, normally underground
- 26. A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings
- 27. A process by which financial institutions draw red-colored lines on a map and refuse to lend money for people to purchase or improve property within the lines
- 30. Government-owned housing rented to low-income individual, with rents set at 30 percent of the tenant's income
- 31. An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urban areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods
- 32. A group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics
Down
- 2. Statistical analysis used to identify where people of similar living standards, ethnic background, and lifestyle live within an urban area
- 3. Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area
- 4. (CSA) In the United States, two or more contiguous CBSAs tied together by commuting patterns
- 6. Legally adding land area to a city in the United States
- 7. A process of change in the use of a house, from a single-family owner occupancy to abandonment
- 8. A residential or commercial area situated within an urban area but outside the central city
- 10. In the United States, an urban area with at least 50,000 inhabitants
- 11. In the United States, any MSA or μSA
- 14. (city) An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit known as a municipality
- 23. A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community
- 25. A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road
- 28. A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district
- 29. The four consecutive 15-minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic